GRE Word List
ROUSING
giving rise to excitement : stirring
The meaning of the word rousing is giving rise to excitement : stirring.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| chortle | to sing or chant exultantly |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |